Manhood acts : gender and the practices of domination

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Manhood acts : gender and the practices of domination

Michael Schwalbe

Paradigm Publishers, c2014

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In Manhood Acts Michael Schwalbe offers a new perspective on the social construction of manhood and its relationship to male domination. Schwalbe argues that study of masculinity has lost touch with its feminist roots and has been seduced by the politically safe notion of 'multiple masculinities'. Manhood Acts delineates the practices males use to construct 'women' and 'men' as unequal categories. Schwalbe reclaims the radical feminist insights that gender is a field of domination, not a field of play, and that manhood is fundamentally about exerting or resisting control. Manhood Acts arrives at the conclusion that abolishing gender as a system of oppression will require more than transgressive self-presentation. It will be necessary to end the exploitive economic relationships that necessitate manhood itself.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Gender Theory after Auschwitz
  • Chapter 2 The Masculinities Industry
  • Chapter 3 Theses on Manhood Acts
  • Chapter 4 Drone Morality
  • Chapter 5 Capitalism and the Compulsions of Manhood
  • Chapter 6 The Limits of Trans Liberalism
  • Chapter 7 Feminism or Barbarism

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